Lamborghini boy Max Wade has many fans

The Marin County teenager suspected of the spectacular rope rappel heist of a Lamborghini from a San Francisco dealership and the attempted shooting of a couple in Mill Valley has attracted a large following, including lawyers and rappers.

Max Wade, 18, grew up in swanky Tiburon and lived in San Rafael until his arrest April 28 on seven felony counts. Yvette Martinez, the Marin County deputy district attorney, laid out the evidence against Wade during his preliminary hearing this week, including the discovery in his storage locker of the revolver used in the shooting, a climbing harness and other incriminating evidence.

It is, no doubt, a spellbinding case, but it is also a curiosity, particularly when one considers Wade’s seeming popularity among the public.

A obscenity-laced rap tune has been posted about him on You Tube and admiring commentary is regularly posted by fans online, often attached to newspaper articles. His fan club is such that at least two of them tried to bust him out of juvenile hall the morning of his 18th birthday, on Aug. 10.

Wade’s mother attended all three days of the hearing and, although not permitted to talk about the case, declared her son “a beautiful boy” who is “my life.”

Apparently, she isn’t the only one who feels this way.

“He’s kind of cute,” one female lawyer — not connected with the case — was overheard whispering about the fit-looking defendant with long sideburns and dark, wavy hair.

“He’s fine!” said another middle aged lawyer, perhaps a little louder than necessary in the quiet courtroom, as she settled down in the gallery to watch the case.